Kelly Bishop's Top 'Gilmore Girls' Moments

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Kelly Bishop, who played the role of Emily Gilmore, Lorelai's mother, on the 'Gilmore Girls,' has released a memoir about her time on the show, and talked to TIME about her favorite moments from the beloved series.

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00:00Well, my very favorite Emily moment was the first line I had with Lorelai, Lauren Graham.

00:16When she knocks at the door, I open the door, she's standing there and says,

00:21Hi, Mom.

00:22Lorelai!

00:23My goodness, this is a surprise.

00:27Is it Easter already?

00:29Because later, Edwin Herman comes in, in the same scene, and sees her and does the other

00:34one.

00:35What is it?

00:36Christmas already?

00:37That was one of my favorites, because I thought that that line said so much without having

00:42to explain anything about exposition.

00:44Simply seeing your child and thinking it's a major holiday means that you don't see

00:49your child very often.

00:51So I thought it was very, very cleverly written.

00:54Everyone seems to love the spa episode when Lorelai and I went off to a spa and then we

01:00stole a robe.

01:01Part of the reason I like that, it was one of those rare times when Emily got to expose

01:08her vulnerabilities to her daughter by way of almost apologizing for not understanding

01:15how to be friends with her and being envious of the fact that she had such a good relationship

01:21with her daughter.

01:22So it was that vulnerability.

01:24And then later on, when she talks me into stealing a robe, which is just horrifying

01:30to me until I find out that she's never done anything like that with Rory.

01:34So it's something secret we have together.

01:36I particularly like an episode where my character discovers that her husband's mother, who has

01:43just died, had written him a letter the night before our wedding, begging him not to marry me.

01:48My dearest Richard, it is with heavy heart that I write you this letter tonight.

01:53But I cannot stand by and let you make a terrible mistake.

01:55Until now I had thought, hoped, prayed that you would come to the same conclusion that

01:59I have.

02:00But you have not, and therefore I feel it is my duty as your mother to beg you to reconsider

02:04your impending marriage.

02:07Which sent me off into a whole downward spiral of drinking during the day and doing who knows

02:13what.

02:14I was so messed up by that thing.

02:17The DAR scene, that was in The Year in the Life, those last four episodes we did, when

02:25I just gave up the DAR.

02:29I gave up them and their pretense and whatever else they thought they were doing.

02:34And I also got to swear.

02:37What the hell is going on?

02:38I can't do it anymore.

02:39Can't do what?

02:40I can't spend any more time and energy on artifice and bullshit.

02:44Why do you love that word so much?

02:47And I remember Amy telling me when I read that script and that Emily seemed to have

02:53kind of a foul mouth every once in a while.

02:55And she said, we decided since this is not regular television and you can say whatever

02:59you want, you can use swear words, we decided the only person in the show who swears is

03:06Emily.

03:07It's funny.

03:08It was just another outrageous move on Amy Sherman Palladino's part.

03:17It's funny.

03:18It's funny.

03:19It's funny.

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